# Hot women writers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464 "2004-12-07T01:11:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aaslatten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/1 "2004-12-07T01:11:19Z")
I came across this photo of Dorothy Parker the other day and thought, “wow, she was quite a doll.” [http://www.lyfe.freeserve.co.uk/art/parker.jpg](http://www.lyfe.freeserve.co.uk/art/parker.jpg) I was hard-pressed to think of other really attractive famous women writers. Anybody care to nominate a few? (Partly inspired by the thread on aging attractive women. I recognize the sexist nature of this thread. Someone please feel free to start one about male writers.) ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/2 "2004-12-07T01:12:40Z")
Eve Golden. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/3 "2004-12-07T01:14:29Z")
Four freakin’ minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/4 "2004-12-07T01:15:18Z")
You gotta move fast, **Ethilrist**. The girl’s a hot commodity. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/5 "2004-12-07T01:15:46Z")
Or two. Two freakin’ minutes, mwah hah hah!!! Okay, how about JK Rowling? ---
**Author:** ![aaslatten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/6 "2004-12-07T01:17:31Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Or two. Two freakin’ minutes, mwah hah hah!!! > > Okay, how about JK Rowling? Say, she’s not bad. And Eve Golden’s a given. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/7 "2004-12-07T01:26:26Z")
[blushes prettily] [Vera Brittain](http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/infodocs/people/pst_vera.html), [Edna St. Vincent Millay](http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/millay/millay.htm) . . . ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/8 "2004-12-07T01:27:15Z")
[Anne Sexton](http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/enam312/galryas.jpg) [Sarah Schulman](http://www.magnusnews.com/99dec/pictures/sarah.jpg) [Iris Chang](http://www.rlenelive.com/Whats_happening/Pictures/Chang,-Iris-102903E.jpg) [Sylvia Plath](http://www.arlindo-correia.com/plath3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/9 "2004-12-07T01:32:50Z")
Anais Nin ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/10 "2004-12-07T01:41:12Z")
> [@chatelaine](#): > > [Anne Sexton](http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/enam312/galryas.jpg) > [Sarah Schulman](http://www.magnusnews.com/99dec/pictures/sarah.jpg) > [Iris Chang](http://www.rlenelive.com/Whats_happening/Pictures/Chang,-Iris-102903E.jpg) > [Sylvia Plath](http://www.arlindo-correia.com/plath3.jpg) Hmmm. Four “hot” authors, three suicides. I hope Ms. Schulman is on antidepressants. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/11 "2004-12-07T01:44:54Z")
You know, I didn’t even realize that when I listed them. Just looked at my bookshelf and picked off three or four I found attractive. I think I’m going to move my Sarah Schulman anthology a few rows down from her current neighbors. Just to be on the safe side. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/12 "2004-12-07T01:50:43Z")
[Dare Wright](http://www.logan.com/loganberry/most-wright.html), [Claire Booth Luce](http://theoscarsite.com/ceremonies/luce_c.htm), [Anita Loos](http://www.britannica.com/women/articles/Loos_Anita.html), [Elinor Glyn](http://www.womenofbrighton.co.uk/elinorglin.htm) . . . ---
**Author:** ![phaishazamkhan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@phaishazamkhan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phaishazamkhan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/13 "2004-12-07T01:50:53Z")
Virginia Woolfe Emily Dickenson Then again, I think Meg Griffin from Family Guy and Velma from Scooby Doo are hot ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/14 "2004-12-07T01:59:08Z")
Evelyn Lau and Ann Marie MacDonald are pretty. ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/15 "2004-12-07T02:06:22Z")
Last year, Japan’s most prestigious litterary prize was split between Risa Wataya and Hitomi Kanehara. [Here’s the two of them together.](http://www.asahi.com/top/update/photonews/0115/photo_p/TKY200401150343.jpg) Going back a little bit, there’s the new face of the 5000 yen bill, [Ichiyou Higuchi](http://www.onsei.co.jp/bungo/shashin/ichiyou.gif). Poet [Akiko Yosano](http://www.senami.or.jp/event/takara/akiko.jpg) wasn’t bad looking either. Also, from France: [Colette](http://www.nd.edu/~cperry/Assets/images/colette.jpg). [Georges Sand](http://www.ac-orleans-tours.fr/lettres/tpe/tpe2/lucie-estelle-601/sand.jpg). [Marguerite Duras](http://www.violettanet.it/poesiealtro_autori/grafica/duras39393.jpg). Anglo-Canadian-by-birth-but-writes-in-French novellist [Nancy Huston](http://www.canoe.ca/LifewiseBookClubImages/huston.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/16 "2004-12-07T02:12:33Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > [Edna St. Vincent Millay](http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/millay/millay.htm) . . . I was going to mention her. She looked better than the linked picture (which must have been taken after her heavy drinking caught up with her) suggests. ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/17 "2004-12-07T06:07:16Z")
If you like 'em on the…erm…edge, Elizabeth Wurtzel. I have a thing for [Jhumpa Lahiri](http://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/09/30/sprj.caf03.jhumpa.lahiri/) but her books made me very, very sad. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/18 "2004-12-07T06:29:17Z")
Not to hihack this into a comics hread, but… Cartoonist Wendy Pini, back in the 70s, used to pose (rather convincingly) in Red Sonja costumes at comics conventions. I met her in '89 and she was still quite the hot tomato. ---
**Author:** ![lexi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lexi/32/6806_2.png) [@lexi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lexi)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/19 "2004-12-07T06:29:45Z")
Naomi Wolf [http://www.ship.edu/~sunews/wolf.html](http://www.ship.edu/~sunews/wolf.html) [http://www.suntimes.co.za/2004/02/22/news/world/world03.asp](http://www.suntimes.co.za/2004/02/22/news/world/world03.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/20 "2004-12-07T06:39:07Z")
Hey, I just remembered: Wendy Pini wrote a prose novel, so she can be [included.](http://www.creationent.com/past_events/comic_book/22.jpg) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464.md?page=2)